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  Japanese Mecha Game Invites Crazy Controller Holding

  The Armored Core games, from Dark Souls‘s developer From Software, give players the experience of controlling a giant mecha. As you can imagine, giant mechas are complex machines and, thus, so are Armored Core‘s controls. The above photo appeared on Japanese forums recently during Armored Core V discussions. According to Mecha Damashii‘s Ollie Barder, this…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 23, 2012
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  Elderly Man Thanks Resident Evil for His Longevity

  Shiro Suzuki, famed Japanese broadcaster, loves Resident Evil. As Kotaku previously posted, Suzuki discovered gaming over 15 years ago. It was Resident Evil that quickly became his favorite. At the recent Resident Evil event in Tokyo, Shiro Suzuki spoke about his love for not just the series, but also gaming. “I owe making it to…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 23, 2012
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  New DoDonPachi Maniac Shooter Teased

  Cave, the Tokyo-based shmup studio, teased a new DoDonPachi, dubbed DoDonPachi: Saidaioujou. More details on Jan. 23. [Official Site]

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 23, 2012
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  She’s Only 23-Years-Old, But Has a Retro Game Museum

  Ever wonder how much retro game idol Haruna Anno loves video games? Enough to make a retro gaming museum. Anno, who also does bikini modeling, believes that video games are culture and spearheaded this space to preserve that culture. The museum features old arcade games on free-play, old game mags to peruse, games, and retro…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 23, 2012
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  Is This Japan’s Favorite Western Cosplayer? Maybe!

  Whenever Japanese bulletin boards discover bad Western cosplay, forum users begin piling on the bad cosplay photos, saying foreigners just cannot cosplay. (This is incorrect.) But then, inevitably, somebody usually pulls out a Maridah photo, pointing out that some of the best cosplay ever is not Japanese. Who’s Maridah? She just might be Japan’s favorite…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 23, 2012
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  Japanese Politician Is a Computer-Building Badass

  Kaoru Yosano looks like your typical politician—navy blue suit, glasses, and a Showa Era hairdo. Kaoru Yosano is anything but typical. He is a PC-building, nerd-hero. At Nicofarre, the teched out nightclub for Japanese video service Nico Nico Douga, Kaoru Yosano participated in the “Kaoru Yosano Triathlon” in which the well-known politician underwent five events…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 23, 2012
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  iPhone6? No, It’s the iPnoho6!

  China is infamous for its knock-offs. Some are so well-made, it’s impossible to tell them from the original. And sometimes they are even made at the same factories! As good as China’s knock-offs are, nothing beats their clever names. There was the iPed, the Yinlips YDPG18 (okay, not so clever) and now, there is iPnoho6!…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 23, 2012
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  You’ll Never Look at the Resident Evil 6 Logo the Same

  Apologies for all the blowjobs tonight! (I’ve always wanted to write that.) Just like Yoshi on the Japanese tea cartons, here’s another subliminal image you cannot unsee: a pink giraffe getting off in bizarre S&M play with a pink slug. Capcom, you should be ashamed of yourself. A pink giraffe and a slug? Disgusting! Kotaku…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 23, 2012
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  Warner Bros. Wants to Make Movies Out of a Book Based on a Giant Video Game

  I got excited in 2008 when news hit somebody was making a game based on Tad Williams’ Otherland series of books. That game never turned up. Since it was an MMO, I am already over it, and now excited all over again because Otherland is being turned into very expensive motion pictures instead. The books,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 23, 2012
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  The War Against Piracy is as Much About Politics as it’s About Piracy

  This has long been a bit of an elephant in the room when it comes to “giant publishers talking about piracy”, so naturally it’s taken a representative from a small publisher to bring it up. Asked by GameSpy why companies like Ubisoft insist on hideous forms of DRM, Paradox Interactive CEO Fred Wester replies with…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 23, 2012
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  Copywriter Points to Skyrim “Blowjob” Ad

  If you pay attention to ads, you know there are subliminal messages. Even if you don’t, your brain picks up on them. Typically, these messages are sex-related, but not always. Blogger Copyranter, who’s apparently been an ad copywriter for 18 years, sure notices them. On a post titled “Today’s Blowjob Ad”, Copyranter pointed this this…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 23, 2012
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  The Very Best In Cosplay: Crystal Graziano

  Continuing our series highlighting the very best cosplayers on planet Earth, this morning we’re looking at Crystal Graziano, who unlike most other people in the field gets to put “professional cosplayer” on her tax return. Having recently got Firefall developers Red 5 to fit the bill for her cosplaying efforts throughout 2012, Graziano should be…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 23, 2012
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  The World’s Smallest Aperture Logo?

  Nanotechnology engineering student TheObviousTrap created a 300 nanometer thick Aperture logo in an undergrad class. Bravo! “Obtaining the image using scanning electron microscopy is probably overkill but that was only equipment I had access to,” TheObviousTrap wrote on Reddit Portal players will be familiar with Aperture—the in-game scientific corporation. Nanotechnology students will be familiar 300…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published January 23, 2012
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  The Muppets Look Great In LittleBigPlanet 2 [Update]

  This Wednesday, LittleBigPlanet 2 gets its most interesting update in months, when The Muppets come to Media Molecule’s PS3 exclusive. For USD$6/€6/£4.80.UD$9.95 you’ll get all kinds of stuff like stickers, new levels, etc, but strangely the official description lists only a Rowlf costume for Sackboy, and not the others seen starring in the video. Media…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 23, 2012
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  Ocarina of Time, Recreated Entirely As a Minecraft Map

  The goal behind Hyrulecraft was a simple one. Recreate the entire game world of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, at a scale of 1:1, within Minecraft. Something the team behind the project have now accomplished. It’s (mostly) all there. Just about everything from the 1998 Nintendo 64 classic, including all of the overworld,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 23, 2012
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  What is Cosplay?

  Almost every time we make a cosplay post here on Kotaku, the questions come out. Why are these grown men and women playing dress-ups? Why are these women (and sometimes men) walking around showing so much skin? Those people are missing the point of why people get into cosplay. A point this video explains quite…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 22, 2012
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  They Don’t Make Games Like Strike Commander Any More

  Before Chris Roberts went crazy and started making terrible movies, he was the genius behind some of the greatest PC games ever made. Some, like Wing Commander, are still remembered fondly today. Others, like Strike Commander, sadly are not. So successful was Roberts’ Wing Commander series, and/or so intent was the man on telling story-driven…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 22, 2012
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  HBO Wants to Turn Indie Game Movie Into TV Series

  Indie Game: The Movie, a documentary about getting an indie game made, had a pretty successful debut at Sundance over the weekend. So successful, in fact, it’s already been picked up by HBO so it can be turned into a TV series. The network, renowned for its strong original content, has optioned the rights to…

  By Luke Plunkett Published January 22, 2012
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  Huh-Huh … You Said … ‘Bust’

  Huh-Huh … You Said … ‘Bust’ | Lifelike busts of 1990s entertainment icons Beavis and Butt-Head. Seen via Geeokologie. Jailed Megaupload King is Still the World No. 1 in Modern Warfare 3 Kim Dotcom is the Internet playboy who made his zillions by founding the now-defunct (and Anonymous cause celebre du jour) Megaupload, and also…

  By Owen Good Published January 22, 2012
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  Mass Effect Figures Will Set a Record for Most Expensive DLC

  The four series of Mass Effect 3 figurines being offered by Big Fish games Toys (announced back in December) are certainly nice enough collector’s items. They will also come with a card (one per figure) promising “access to downloadable in-game content.” One figurine is $17.99; a set of four is $67.99. All four series, then,…

  By Owen Good Published January 22, 2012